“Baby’s gone and I don’t know why
She let out this mornin’
Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky
She left me without warnin’

Sooner than the dogs could bark
Faster than a sun rose
Down to the banks on an old mule car
She took a flatboat ‘cross the shallow

Left me in my tears to drown
She left a baby daughter
Now the river’s wide and deep and brown
She’s crossin’ muddy waters

Tobacco standin’ in the fields
Be rotten come November
And a bitter heart will not reveal
A spring that love remembers

When that sweet brown girl of mine
Hair black as a raven
We broke the bread and drank the wine
From a jug that she’d been savin’

Left me in my tears to drown
She left a baby daughter
Now the river’s wide and deep and brown
She’s crossin’ muddy waters

Baby’s cryin’ and the daylight’s gone
That big oak tree is groaning
In a rush of wind and a river of song
I can hear my true love moanin’

Cryin’ for her baby child
Or cryin’ for her husband
Cryin’ for that river’s wild
To take her from her loved ones

Left me in my tears to drown
She left a baby daughter
Now the river’s wide and deep and brown
She’s crossin’ muddy waters

Now the river’s wide and deep and brown
She’s crossin’ muddy waters.”

John Hiatt, “Crossing Muddy Waters.” The second track on the record with the same name. Released on September 26th, 2000.

A cover of this track was recorded by the band I’m With Her and released on the “Crossing Muddy Waters/Be My Husband” EP on May 19th, 2015.